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….. along with everything else. XD Hopefully Lysandre’s Gyarados isn’t next on the menu list, seeing as Mr. Fish already has a documented past of eating other trainers’ Pokemon.

(I also just continue to love Lysandre’s ridiculous fluffy Ganondorf hair and how Jared continues to surprise top Pokemon professors with his common-sense-knowledge. Does he also now get an honorary PhD in Pokemon Nutrition?)

Jared wouldn’t need to ask you if you were a boy or a girl, and he certainly wouldn’t need to ask you what his own grandson’s name was. Honestly, I think most of the Pokemon professors got where they are by flunking out of more respectable fields.

Considering that these “Pokemon Professors” didn’t even know that pokemon were born from eggs until the second game, despite having clearly coexisted with them for millions of years, I wouldn’t be surprised.

You shouldn’t be, one of the moves that mr fish has in his repertoire is “don’t eat jared” to this very day (unless coelasquid has had jared training mr fish behind our backs, but she wouldn’t do that to her loyal fans).

I would say that Jared may have issued it as a command as a precaution once Mr. Fish evolved.

Many animals play via biting. There was that guest comic where Mr. Fish was sleeping with Jared in his mouth. So “Don’t eat Jared” is probably to stop Mr. Fish from putting him in his mouth.

I hope we get to see Mr. Fish Megaevo.

Then Jared can call his parents and brag about his dark/water type with boosted attack and defense. lol electric types? Earthquake. Set up DDance in the rain and waterfall/bounce everything into oblivion and get moxy attack boosts.

A ridiculously strong sweeper is something to be proud of, Jared.
Also being a recognized member of the science community is a +.
Jared getting recognized for talent and competence is pretty uncharacteristic.
Inb4 a love interest for him gets introduced.

at least in the early generations, every electric pokemon thats actually good at electric stuff will one-shot a gyarados with that 4x electricity weakness. but as i recall, GOOD electric types are rarely used by in-game trainers…

You shouldn’t be, one of the moves that mr fish has in his repertoire is “don’t eat jared” to this very day (unless coelasquid has had jared training mr fish behind our backs, but she wouldn’t do that to her loyal fans).

I’m also wondering about this. There’s some pretty specific items on here. Bacon and cheddar quiche? Souvlaki? Little Ceasar’s? Did Coela just run through a list of items she’d eaten in the last month or so, and did this actually include vagrants, cats, and whales?

Well yeah, presumably that’s how Mr. Fish came to try all of these. I do pretty much the same thing with my cockatoo and dog. Although I’m somewhat concerned if there just happens to be a bunch of stray cats around his apartment. Not necessarily surprised, but concerned.

I was wondering about Coela’s creative process for coming up with these.

Where are you getting that size for Poliwag? According to Bulbapedia, Poliwag is 2 feet 2 inches, while Wailord is 47 feet long. Poliwrath is the largest of Poliwag’s evolutionary tree, and he’s still only 4 feet 3 inches.

Lionfish aren’t poisonious, they are venemous. That means that the venom is entirely contained to a few areas they sting with (specifically, certain of their spines)

Unless you eat those, you’re fine. Even if you do eat those, they are denatured pretty easily (another difference between poisons and venoms). You’re probably in more trouble from the fact that you just ate a bunch of pointy spines.

I’ve eaten lionfish. Its tasty, so long as you slice off the spines first.

Considering the diet most Trainers feed their mons, this really isn’t surprising. Let’s see what Pokemon usually eat when owned by a trainer: Berries, berry juice, soda pop, lemonade, water, vitamins, cookies, candy (rage candy bar, rare candy), medicine, milk, roots and herbs, and mushrooms. Potions might be ingested, but they look like they’re aerosol or some sort of injection.
They get to hold your leftovers, but not eat them (I think). Farfetch’d hold a rock-hard leek. Once you catch them, they can not eat honey. You smear it on trees instead.

Gentlemen, we have born witness to the first (and possibly only) well-fed Trained Pokémon. This means that every Pokemon that Trainers use are sickly or undersized.

Anyway! Taking Mr. Fish’s approximate size, he seems to occupy a somewhat larger volume than an African Elephant, which weigh between four and seven metric tonnes. As a marine animal, Mr. Fish likely masses pretty heavily by sporting a denser, blubber-esque energy storage layer (won’t get into theorycrafting for how pokemon store enough caloric density to fire off pulmonary or alimentary tract mounted death rays, you’ll have to work that one out yourselves) and specialized musculo-skeletal systems for sustaining whatever depth of dive it needs to be able to dive and resurface from in nature.

I’d guess Mr. Fish masses somewhere in the range of ‘several tonnes’, probably somewhere north of six not accounting for possible (it’s pokemon, probable) weird superlight handwavium metamaterials in his bones.

I forgot the math part of this, because it’s quarter to three in the morning and my cat is yelling at me about invisible gremlins so you’ll have to work out Mr. Fish’s approximate volume on your own.

Poképuffs look like macarons, which are pretty much just meringue. They’re almost entirely egg whites and sugar, with maybe some almond for flavor, assuming they don’t have some other super-rich filling in the middle.

Pokepuffs are apparently made from berries, vitamins, what looks like to be health-based cake mix and cream. So yeah, it’s like a healthy version of a macaron. I’m with Jared on this one.. it’s a sometimes food. No matter how healthy it apparently is. I just can’t fathom that certain Pokemon who were clearly carnivores could survive on something like that.

I love, love, LOVE that Jared is getting his moment to shine. Thank you so much. :D (also despite being a huge fan of the pokemon games I’m not gonna lie I’m adoring your pointing out of how ridiculous certain concepts in the pokemon games are)

Now for the next comparisons: Mr. Fish versus the tallest/lengthiest Pokemon in the National Kalos Dex (maybe this is Steelix or Wailord?), then Mr. Fish versus the weightiest in the same 718 (to be 721) (Groudon, I think). It would be interesting to see just how abnormally MANLY Mr. Fish is compared to those lightweights.

Man, I can NOT get enough Lysandre. I have to be honest, some (just a few) of Coelasquid’s own version of characters I’ve known felt a bit off for me (Just a few. We can’t ALWAYS agree, yeah?), but her rendition of Lysandre, even after nearly a month, I can’t get enough of.

To make it short, I feel like she took a near-awkward looking character in the game and make it look better than his original representation.

On an unrelated note, I wonder if anyone will make mention of how weird it was that Lysandre died, man. Or is assumed to have died. And nobody gives a fuck. First thing to die since that off-screen Marowak in Blue/Red in the history of pokemans as far as I can recall. And nobody gives a fuck.

What about Hydreigon in Mystery Dungeon GTI?
Sure it’s a spin off, but still. The poor thing was frozen solid, then smashed into powder. He got better later (somehow) but still, even he said his physical form was pretty much dead in the meantime.
And then there was the protagonist of PMD Explorers. Erased from time and space after an actual SUICIDE mission. (again, you get better (somehow))

Y’know.. imagining Jared in an anime scientist lab coat.. oddly works. He pulls off the ‘malnourished nutty prodigy’ look.
I mean.. look at the last few panels, and imagine the hoody to be white. Y’see? No? Maybe just me.

I always did think Pokemon Amie could have done with better food options than just the “Pokepuffs” thing, like you could feed it different food groups like meat(e.g chicken leg, generic meat-on-a-bone thing, turkey dinner) plants(leaf, apple, carrot, etc) or for some even minerals (rocks, geodes, crystals). Not sure what to do about those Ghost-types that feed on life force/emotions/whatever; perhaps for them just petting them enough would also increase the “fullness” meter as they derive sustenance from your affection or something?

Holy smokes! Lobster bisque? Jared puts way more effort into caring for Mr. Fish than I ever thought of doing when I played pokemon. I guess being bad at pokemon training and lazy (although maybe not since he started working for CB) doesn’t mean you can’t be a good master to your pokemon.

Because macarons and macaroons are two different pastries. Macaroons are basically the American version of macarons. Macarons are made by making a meringue adding flavor then deflating it some before adding flour and piping into small disks which are then baked and put together over a flavored filling.

Macaroons are similarly made of deflated meringue, but coconut flakes are added and they’re piped into lumps and baked and eaten that way.

I just realized that Jared actually looks semi mature in the bottom few panels. He’s not being overly expressive, which is odd for him, but he looks sane and composed and like a normal person. Especially next to Lysandre.

Waitwaitwaitwait, I just read the List a bit more carefully and right at the center-top of the third panel of it, Jared says he feeds Mr. Fish “vagrants”??? So, hobos? Jared just straight-up feeds homeless people to his Gargantuan Laser Dragon Snake Fish?